Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT)

“You take one look out that door … and it’s a long way down.”

In fact it was 14,000 feet down, give or take a foot or two, for Mike Crowe and members of the U.S. Army’s elite Golden Knights precision parachuting team -– a record high for the team in tandem jumping.

Crowe, 59, of Louisville, Ky., dropped from the plane and into the sky linked to Sgt. First Class Mike Elliott, otherwise known as the tandem master.

A recent trial has shown inconclusive results from various doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in patients with the peripheral nerve disease type 1A Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A), and the jury remains out on this form of treatment, says Michael Shy, an MDA grantee at Wayne State University in Detroit.

A recent trial has shown inconclusive results from various doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in patients with the peripheral nerve disease type 1A Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A), and the jury remains out on this form of treatment, says Michael Shy, an MDA grantee at Wayne State University in Detroit.

When a group of Wethersfield (Conn.) High School students was brainstorming ideas for a science project, they looked no further than team member Griffin Latulippe for an idea that vaulted them into the international spotlight.

Zarife Sahenk at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University in Columbus, and colleagues, found mice with a disease resembling type 1A Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) benefited from a transfer of genes for the neurotrophin 3 protein. CMT1A is caused by a duplication of the PMP22 gene.

Jerry Mendell, who has received many MDA research grants and co-directs the MDA clinic at Nationwide Children's, was part of the study team, as was Brian Kaspar, who has MDA support at Nationwide.

Tom Mumper, 80, revels in shaping wood into “functional art

Twenty years and 4,600 artfully crafted pieces later, Tom Mumper has no plans to slow down with his unique woodturning avocation.

In January, MDA began funding development of the North American CMT Network to provide an infrastructure for clinical research in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and aid researchers in locating potential participants for clinical studies.

An early goal of the network is to establish scoring systems for functional evaluations in children with CMT.

Flying automobiles … flying lawnmowers … flying doghouses … where’s this madness going to end?

If Chris “Lucky” Carnes has his druthers, the sky’s the limit.

For the past four years, the 33-year-old from Chase City, Va., has been busy practically every weekend with the rapidly growing hobby/sport of model aviation.